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Inside Out & About

By: Friends of the Chicago River
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  • Join Friends of the Chicago River on a journey along the Chicago River system for an exploration of our river, natural areas, local wildlife and history, and meet people locally and nationally who are helping bring these amazing places to life. Complemented by programming which can be found on Friends’ website at chicagoriver.org, Inside, Out & About includes a myriad of experiences, art, music, interviews, tours, family activities at home and outside— and we hope it will inspire your sense of adventure and provide hours of entertainment and interesting information presented in English and Spanish. Studies show that being outside in nature is good for our health—and we hope Inside Out 7 About will inspire you to get outdoors.
    Friends of the Chicago River 2021
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Episodes
  • Nature Inspires Art

    Nature Inspires Art
    Oct 19 2022

    In this episode of Inside, Out & About we explore the confluence of nature and art with acclaimed artist Ben Miller and Friends of the Chicago River Executive Director Margaret Frisbie.  Miller works in a unique painting style with a rod and reel in a process he calls "fly cast painting."  In the spring of 2022 Friends of the Chicago River hosted Miller at our McCormick Bridgehouse and Chicago River Museum, located on Chicago's iconic Riverwalk, where Miller toiled for hours angling his line toward a Plexiglas canvas some 20 feet away to create a stunning portrait of the Chicago River. 
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    44 mins
  • STORY 12: The Beauty of Dark Sky Places

    STORY 12: The Beauty of Dark Sky Places
    Apr 21 2022
    In this episode we speak with Ashley Wislon the director of conservation for the International Dark Sky Association (IDA). In 2021, the IDA named Forest Preserves of Cook County’s Palos Preserves, in partnership with the Adler Planetarium, as the largest Urban Night Sky Place in the world. The Palos Preserves is part of the largest area of protected natural land in Cook County, Illinois encompassing 6,662 acres. The Adler Planetarium also measured about four times more stars that are visible in the night sky over the site than in the City of Chicago. 
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    28 mins
  • An Opportunity for Water in Cities

    An Opportunity for Water in Cities
    Feb 26 2022

    In this episode of Inside, Out & About we are joined by Mary Pat McGuire, associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and director of Water Lab. McGuire talks about the relationship between water and pavement, and the vital need to rethink our overreliance on impervious paved surfaces. She details how we can undo the harmful environmental effects of paved surfaces by reducing their area, which creates positive impacts for human and ecological health, aesthetics, and resilience instead.
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    40 mins
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